Word: oberline
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...graduate of Oberlin College and a resident of the national capital, Mrs. Mary Church Terrell should have been eligible to join the Washington branch of the American Association of University Women. But Mary Terrell was a Negro. In 1946, Washington turned her down...
Olivet College, Olivet, Michigan, was founded 109 years ago by Father Shipherd, a revivalist minister who had helped found Oberlin College, and who told his followers, "Be not conformed to this world" and "Dare to do what we acknowledge to be right...
...Professor of Law; John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature; William A. Jackson, Professor of Bibliography and Assistant Librarian in charge of Houghton Library; Keyes D. Metcalf, Director of the University library; and presidents and librarians from Stanford University, University of California, and Amherst, Vanderbilt, and Oberlin Colleges...
...teacher at the University of Texas) to listen to records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including a Ph.D.) at Rochester's Eastman School of Music...
...such incidents and characters The God-Seeker is compounded. Aaron comes to know and fear tough Caesar Lanark, falls half in love with Huldah Purdick (while Selene is away), argues with a suave Catholic missionary, becomes friendly with Black Wolf, an Oberlin-educated Indian who is trying to convert the whites to the beliefs of the Indians. Finally he flees with Selene from the wrath of her father, becomes a prosperous builder in St. Paul (after marrying Selene), encourages his workmen to go out on strike, and on the eve of the Civil War is somewhat surprised to find himself...